Antoine Bourges

Antoine Bourges is a French-Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2012 mid-length docudrama film East Hastings Pharmacy, which was the winner of the Colin Low Award at the 2013 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, and his 2017 narrative feature film Fail to Appear, which was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017

Early life Bourges was originally from Paris, he moved to Canada as a teenager to play ice hockey; after failing to make the National Hockey League, he studied film at the University of British Columbia and York University. He made a number of short films prior to East Hastings Pharmacy; the most noted of these, Woman Waiting, premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, and was screened at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.

His newest film, Concrete Valley, premiered in the Wavelengths program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. It is also slated to screen at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival on 21 February 2023.

Filmography Hello Goodbye - 2008 People Were There - 2008 Woman Waiting - 2010 East Hastings Pharmacy - 2012 William in White Shirt - 2015 Fail to Appear - 2017 Concrete Valley - 2022